My newly implemented 20 point plan

I’ve not been around lately because I’ve been extremely busy with my business – in fact, I rarely have time to take any time out for myself these days, which I am somewhat struggling with.

I had a great conversation with my mentor yesterday (even coaches need mentors/coaches!) and I was discussing with him my struggle to find the time to get everything done each day, as well as take time out for myself.

He offered me a great tool for managing my productivity around my business and I thought I’d pass it on to you, my dedicated readers! This tool can be used for business and can be modified to help you achieve personal goals too.

I find that sometimes my productivity wanes – I’m not doing things that are helping my business to grow to a point where I can find ways to leverage of other people, and this is partly my problem.

The tool is a 20 point plan or checklist, and here are the steps to implement this:

1. Write down everything you do that contributes to generating income for your business, or something that contributes to a specific goal.
2. Allocate points to each task. For example, if I go to see a client or do some networking, that is worth 2 points. If I email a potential client or update my blog then that is worth .1 per email/post. If I pick up a new client then I get 5 points.
3. Work towards achieving 20 points per day.
4. Once you have reached 20 points you can take some time out!

You will need to be honest with yourself here. Only give decent points to items that contribute the most to your goals, and of course only allocate points to productive tasks.

What’s great about this tool is that you are likely to focus on productive tasks to get points, rather than tasks that will not take you closer to your goal.

As you near 20 points, you will begin to feel a sense of accomplishment – you’re almost there! Reach 20 and you get to celebrate! Woohoo!

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As a child, he mapped out what he wanted to achieve in his life. He had health and other issues that normally would have prevented anyone else from doing what they wanted to achieve, but he didn’t let this stop him.

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If you want to achieve more in life, then this site might provide you with the inspiration you need.

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Beautiful!

I know this has nothing to do with the content on this website, but somebody posted a comment on my writing blog with a link to this YouTube song, and I just had to share.

I had goosebumps while listening to it!

Who Creates Your Reality

Who creates your reality?  Why is your life the way it is so?  What is your purpose in life?

I was reading as I regularly do and came across this passage that is a Sioux Creation Myth that explains this quite well:

The Creator gathered all of Creation and said, “I want to hide something from the humans until they are ready for it.  It is the realisation that they create their own reality.”  The eagle said, “Give it to me, I will take it to the moon.”  The Creator said, “No.  One day they will go there and find it.”  The salmon said, “I will bury it on the bottom of the ocean.”  “No.  They will go there too.”  The buffalo said, “I will bury it on the Great Plains.”  The Creator said, “They will cut into the skin of the Earth and find it even there.”

Grandmother Mole, who lives in the breast of Mother Earth, and who has no physical eyes but sees wtih spiritual eyes, said, “Put it inside of them.”  And the Creator said, “It is done.”

All too often I hear of people blaming their reality on forces outside of themselves and I was once one of those people.  Once I realised that my reality comes from within, I was able to control my own destiny and my life dramatically changed for the better.

Is your self talk doing you damage?

What you say to yourself can sometimes be more damaging than what others say to you.

How often do you berate yourself for doing something wrong or making a mistake? How harsh are you?

For the most part, we are more harsh on ourselves than others are of us, and it is until we become conscious of the fact that we are doing this, that we can finally take control of it.

We all make mistakes and we all do things we may regret later, but these things are all part of learning. As long as you learn from your past mistakes, you can move on and make different choices next time.

The following steps will give you some idea of what you can try the next time you notice you’re talking negatively to yourself:

• First, be aware of what you say to yourself and why you are saying it.
• Instead of telling yourself that you were stupid for doing something wrong, reword it in your mind to be more like “Ok, that wasn’t the right thing to do. Next time I will do it like…whatever”.
• Compliment yourself when you do something well! Give yourself a mental pat on the back when you succeed!
• Reward yourself for your accomplishments! You don’t have to go all out – just do something nice for yourself!
• You MUST believe you deserve to be treated well, because if you begin to believe it, then your self talk will change. Change that and you will start to see people treating you differently (nice differently! ) and that makes you feel even better about yourself.

When you change how you speak to yourself and how you perceive yourself, the outside world changes dramatically. All of a sudden you see things differently and in a more positive light. More opportunities come your way, a different breed of people start to cross your path and things just seem to go right all of a sudden.

Try this over the next month and see what a difference it really can make to your entire life!

What are you most grateful for in your life right now?

Today is ANZAC day, which is a day where we honour the memory of those who lost their lives defending our country.

My great uncle died in 1941 at the age of 19. He was lost when the HMAS Sydney was sunk by the Germans off the Australian coast.

Today is a time where we should consider how precious life is and why we should enjoy each and every moment. You never know when your life will be taken away, like my great uncle’s was.

He never had the chance to experience the joys I have experienced through my life.

He will never know how wonderful it is to be a parent and meet his children face to face the first time – an experience that cannot be matched by any other.

Life is extremely precious and should be valued. We should feel gratitude for all that we have and expect more, if that is what we want.

What are you most grateful for in your life right now?

Change your point of view and you will change your life

My father emailed this story to me and I figured what better way to tell the world than through my blog because it truly is an inspiring story!

This is ‘Faith’.

This dog was born on Christmas Eve in the year 2002… He was born with 3 legs -
2 healthy hind legs and 1 abnormal front leg which need to be amputated.
He of course could not walk when he was born.
Even his mother did not want him.

His first owner also did not think that he would survive. Therefore, he was thinking of
‘putting him to sleep’.
By this time, his present owner, Jude Stringfellow, met him and wanted to take care
of him. She was determined to teach and train this dog to walk by himself.
Therefore she named him ‘Faith’.

In the beginning, she put Faith on a surfing board to let him feel the movements.
Later she used peanut butter on a spoon as a lure and reward for him to stand up
and jump around. Even the other dog at home also helped to encourage him to walk.
Amazingly, only after 6 months, like a miracle, Faith learned to balance on his 2 hind
legs and jumped to move forward. After further training in the snow, he now can walk
like a human being.

Faith loves to walk around now. No matter where he goes, he just attracts all the
people around him.
He is now becoming famous on the international scene. He has appeared
on various newspapers and TV shows.

There is even one book entitled ‘With a little faith’ being published about him.
He was even considered to appear in one of Harry Potter movies.

His present owner Jude Stringfellew has given up her teaching post and plans
to take him around the world to teach that even without a perfect body, one can
have a perfect soul’.

In life there are always undesirable things. Perhaps one will feel better if one
changes the point of view from another direction.

I hope this message will bring fresh & new ways of thinking to everyone and that everyone
can appreciate and be thankful for each beautiful day that follows.
Faith is the continual demonstration of the Strength of Life.

A small request: All you are asked to do is keep this circulating so pass this story onto your friends.

Take responsibility for your thoughts

I currently work in a large organisation and sitting nearby are two people who I find to be extremely negative.

Other staff members have commented about their negativity to me, and have asked how I handle sitting near them!

Lucky for me, I am easily able to block out their negative comments. I see no point in taking it on board and for the most part I just ignore them. In fact, I kind of feel sorry for them because they don’t realise just how much they are jeapordising their chances of opportunities.

Just today one of them was unsuccessful in a role she applied for and the other was recently unsuccessful in applying for another role.

Now, maybe they were unsuccessful because there is something bigger and better out there for them, or it could be that their negativity is coming across in their interviews.

Being an avid believer in the Law of Attraction, I am thinking that they have attracted their bad results through their internal thinking. They however, are blaming management for the fact they were unsuccessful.

I used to be just like them. Everything that ever went against me was somebody else’s fault. It was never mine.

Now, I have learned that what I think about and how I react to situations is totally in my control and I therefore control them quite well.

Like everyone else, I do have the occasional negative thought and how I deal with these is this: I replace that negative thought with a positive thought. It’s not that hard when you think about it.

Also, I am not perfect and I am guilty of judging people on occasion. Not all the time, but sometimes. When I realise I am doing this though, I stop and try to look at the situation from a different angle. It works wonders, and as time goes on, I find I am less critical than I used to be, so I am getting there!

Well, that’s enough waffling for tonight – it’s nearly my bed time! Night everyone!

What to do when feeling uncertain

I was asked a while back if I would mind conducting a tutorial on a subject I have not really taken an interest in for a long time now.  They had nobody else to do it, so I agreed.

The tutorial relates to a subject that has changed a lot in the last couple of years, so I have had to do a “crash course” so I understand it before I teach it!

Because of this, I am a little uncertain as to whether my knowledge will be sufficient to answer the questions asked of me, however this is how I look at the situation:

If they ask me a question and I don’t know the answer, I will note the question down and get back to them with an answer once I have found it myself.

My other option is to make something up, but you can imagine how silly that would make me look!

We all can’t know everything about everything – everybody knows that!  So if you’re in a similar situation, do what you can to get your head around the subject and if you have some questions you can’t answer, it’s not the end of the world – you can get back to them with an answer later.

I am heading off now, to do some study! 

How do you perceive situations?

In the picture here you can see a Rainbow Lorikeet.

I LOVE them! I think they’re beautiful and colourful and I love to sit and watch them as they feed from the flowers outside my bedroom window.

I know many people who hate these birds because they are noisy – but so what?! They only come around first thing in the morning (the best time of the day!) and just before it gets dark and then they’re gone.

I suppose again I’m talking about perception. I perceive these gorgeous birds to be a positive thing and whenever they’re around I feel grateful that I have native trees around my house to attract them.

Someone who perceives them as negative is likely to wake up grumpy and annoyed because these birds have woken them up.

Who is going to have the better day??

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